Coming Events
There are many Christian Events across the UK in 2008
Our Church will be visiting and taking part in the following
If you are interested see contact details for each event to book your place.
Join Us
Church Barbeque and Bouncy Castle. Saturday 28th June
3.30 – 7.00 pm
Tickets. Familes £8. Adults £3.
Prom Praise on Merseyside
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
Saturday 21 of June 2008
Prom Praise is returning to Merseyside during the Liverpool Capital of Culture year
All Souls Orchestra, conducted by Noel Tredinnick, will once again be leading an evening of popular and classical music, hymns and songs in a “Last Night of the Proms” atmosphere
Tickets are from £8 to £18 and include an individual programme
Philharmonic Hall Box Office 0151 709 3789
Merseyside Prom Praise Choir
If you would like to join the choir and sign at the Prom Praise Performance
The first rehearsals are:-
For Liverpool Area – St Lukes’ Church, Crosby, Thursday 8 May at 7.30pm
For Wirral Area – Holy Trinity, Bebington, Wednesday 7 May at 7.30pm
More Information click link -
http://www.hope08.com/Group/Group.aspx?ID=69097
Tribes celebrates 10th anniversary!
We'd like to thank all our previous clients who have helped to make Tribes the success it is. We are delighted to have reached such a milestone in such a strong position, and hope that you will be able to look to Tribes for the next 10 years if you want an ethical and responsible holiday, which is of fantastic quality.
More information:- http://www.tribes.co.uk/
If you’re interested in fair trade and are looking for an opportunity to meet the people behind the products, to see the impact of fair trade, then Traidcraft Meet the People Tours are for you.
You’ll learn something of the different cultures, visit development projects and sites of interest, meet a wide variety of people - including some Traidcraft producers - and have your ideas of developing countries challenged. Our tours are much more than a holiday.
More Details click the link:
http://meetthepeople.skedaddle.co.uk/splash/Meet_the_People_Tours/index.rails
Click link for more details:
http://meetthepeople.skedaddle.co.uk/
Also
Saturday 17th May 2008
More Information :- http://www.pilots.org.uk/safari/
Graham Kendrick - Sep 29
Venue: William Aston Hall at NEWI, Wrexham
Start: 7.30pm (doors 7pm)
Full price ticket (also on the door, subject to availability):
* £12 per ticket.
Concessions (U-16s, OAPs, full time students, unemployed):
* £10 per ticket.
Early booking discount:
* £1 per ticket for orders received before August 1st.
Group booking discount:
* 50p per ticket for orders of 10 or more tickets.
Box Office 01244 317 664
Wesley Owen, 53 Watergate Street, Chester, CH1 2LB
(£1.50 booking fee for telephone or postal orders)
Need a bit of quiet?
A Quiet Garden
for anyone to use
anytime
behind
HESWALL UNITED REFORMED CHURCH
(next to Tesco)
go through the car park, across the grass, down to the garden
Enjoy peace and quiet and beauty
Heswall URC Quiet Garden
In May 2004 a group from our church went on a pilgrimage to Holy Island. When there, amidst the peace and quiet of the Northumbria community, we felt that we should build a quiet garden in our own church grounds. This could give to all the people of Heswall a place of serenity, peace and quiet that was sorely lacking in the centre of our busy community. It would be somewhere to feel close to God and to his creation. We were blessed in that we had a large, if neglected, area just ripe for developing into somewhere beautiful
By March 2005, the Church Meeting, the forum where decisions are taken in the URC, approved our plan and construction work started in May. Our church architect, Chris Bennett, drew up the plans. We wanted a water feature, we wanted to use natural materials, slate and stone, and we wanted a variety of shrubs and plants. Our minister, Rev Gwynfor Evans, suggested that the water feature should be based on one of our church windows which represents the open tomb on Easter morning. The head of water at the top of the waterfall rushes out, issuing life-giving water and movement. Chris also integrated a dry slate wall, in keeping with the slate waterfall, to accommodate the rather steep slope of the land.
The planting, started in late July, was left to Avril Lock who had grown many of the plants and shrubs. Ivy and shrubs and wild flowers soon clothed the banks of the waterfall and the garden started to look and feel as if it had always been there. As the congregation began to take more interest we were given bequests of garden benches and arbours where people could sit privately and be still or chat in the company of friends.
As time has gone by we now have an escallonia hedge separating the Quiet Garden from the large grassy play area, all the borders are complete and flowers and shrubs are in bloom nearly every week on the year. Even in February this year we had cyclamen flowering under the trees, witchhazel, wintersweet and saroccoca perfuming the air, and pansies, primulas and snowdrops giving us colour and beauty everywhere. The daffodils followed and now all the spring flowering shrubs have come into their own. The arbours are being clothed with honeysuckle, roses and clematis. The garden has taken on a maturity we did not dream possible just under three years ago. As we are an eco-congregation we are keen to encourage wildlife. We have been given a slate birdbath and our Brownies are going to design and build bird boxes.
We are now ready to invite formally all the local shop workers to eat their lunch in our garden in summertime, to circulate an invitation to other churches and community groups, all of whom are welcome to visit the garden whenever they wish. Our toddlers group play there; we take our tea and coffee out into the garden in the summer; we hold receptions there.
We have recently become affiliated to The Quiet Garden Movement, the second garden in Merseyside to affiliate. We hope to hold occasional days, open to everyone, for prayer, silence, meditation and the appreciation of God’s beauty.
Avril Lock
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